Oblivion? (spoiler alert!)

Well I just saw this blu ray last night and was pretty much blown away.

-and I hate almost all of the new movies that have come out the last while.
My favorite fliks are movies like clockwork orange, goodfellas, aliens, platoon, the shining,
-as far as I know I'm not a dolt when it comes to good fliks, but that's a matter of opinion.

anyways not really sure (edit),why most people hated it? (rotten tomatoes gave it 53 I think.
I highly recommend it!

Originally posted by canucks555
Well I just saw this blu ray last night and was pretty much blown away.

-and I hate almost all of the new movies that have come out the last while.
My favorite fliks are movies like clockwork orange, goodfellas, aliens, platoon, the shining,
-as far as I know I'm not a dolt when it comes to good fliks, but that's a matter of opinion.

anyways not really sure (other than the independence day type ending, which was also cool) why most people hated it? (rotten tomatoes gave it 53 I
think.
I highly recommend it!

Well, I liked it. I have to watch it again, because one issue confused me. I think I might have missed something.
But overall, it made me forget that tom cruise was in it, so any movie that can do that, is good to me.

Great movie! Not sure i would call ending somehow close to Independence day. Oblivion has many more symbolic messages in any of its 10 minutes than
whole I-Day movie in 3 hours. Oblivion is much more like Gattaka where every single thing has deeper meaning...

that movie was horrible. 3/4ths of the move was the introduction. Then it ended. Also, what are the odds a spaceship fell from outerspace, in the same
exact place that Tom Cruise was at. Out of the entire world, not only is that next to impossible, that random space ship happened to have his wife on
board. And not only was his wife on board, but everyone on the ship was killed, except for her, with her husband there to save her at the last
minute(even though he had no idea who she was).
His job was to fix drones that crashed. Im pretty sure if a peice of machinary crashed, it would take more then pressing a button on the inside to fix
it. He never goes out to fix a drone with tools or replacement parts. That was dumb.
Idk, I could go on and on. lol

Maybe the droids basically fixed themselves after prompting, (?) And don't forget (since we have now officially achieved full Spoiler mode) That they
were clones. So there were lots of 'em around.
-But yah I repect your opinion, as the film was far from water tight. Not many films are devoid of "artifacts" in this day and age

I'd have to agree with you on the only survivor being his wife but remember that there were thousands of "Cruise" clones all over the planet so no
doubt one of them would be in the area. Also remember it came down as a result of the signal that the others began to broadcast from the Empire State
Building so it's crash location was by design.

On my own personal rating scale that I keep on my computer, I gave it a 6.5.

I'm gonna try to say this, without giving away anything, so it may or may not make any sense: I didn't like how they were all viewed as being the
same as the original. That just makes it much harder for me to believe. The 'Copies' just shouldn't be 100%.

Yeah that makes sense thinking about it now. But another thing that really ruined it for me was the end. The clone that sacrificed his life because he
loved her so much is dead. But some random clone that shes never interacted with meets up with her and now everything is completely fine. Thats kinda
messed up.

I thought the visuals were good but the story was lackluster. All told, I would probably give it a 5 out of 10.

I am, however, really looking forward to Tom Cruise's next film, Edge of Tomorrow. I read the novel (all you need is kill) years ago and loved it.
I'm hoping the movie is going to stick fairly close to the book.

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